3 Quotes & Sayings By Julia Scheeres

Julia Scheeres was born in 1977. She has worked as an investigative reporter for the "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" since 2002. She is the author of "The Devil All the Time: The Untold Stories of Notorious Child Killers," which was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2012 by Publishers Weekly and one of the best books of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews, and the memoir "My Blood Approves: A Memoir." Her writing has also appeared in Mother Jones, The Nation, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Scheeres lives in Milwaukee with her husband, son, and dog.

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One of the most popular genital surgeries is labia minora reduction. When a similar procedure is performed on healthy girls in some African countries as a coming-of-age rite to control their sexuality, Westerners denounce it as genital mutilation; in the U.S. of A., it's called cosmetic enhancement. But both procedures are based on misogynist notions of female genitalia as ugly, dirty, and shameful. And though American procedures are generally performed under vastly better conditions (with the benefit of, say, anesthesia and antibiotics), the postsurgical results can be similarly horrific, involving loss of sensation, chronic pain, and infection. Julia Scheeres
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It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends. Julia Scheeres